Today I want to talk about Size over functional movement and which of the two matters most to us. I have been in the health Industry for many years and I get asked this question a lot why are you not Big like a bodybuilder? why don't you get big and do bodybuilding? and so on...My reply to many of these question is I had taken the route of the so called bodybuilding regime when I was in my teens as most us have but what I have realized over my many years in the health industry is that health and wellness is not measured by the size of your Bicep or how much you can bench instead its measured by you over all health. Yep everything from movement, posture, gut health and wellbeing are more is the true meaning of health and wellness. These elements are what will make you out performing others in the Gym and in your day to day life without having to look like a monster in the process. I personal and professional advice to anyone that wishes to loss weight or gain muscle mass would be to start by building a strong foundation by eating real food and training in functional way. this will give you a great starting point to build a strong and long last healthy physique. if you wish to know more about my principles of nutrition and training or wish to start personal training with me then kindly visit my online training portal at www.alaldinpt.trainerize.com and drop me a message and I would be more then happy to Help you get started on your health and wellness journey.

Hey everyone :) hope your all doing well on this amazing Tuesday afternoon. I just had my afternoon Berry White Organic drink and i was thinking about what best to write about today on my blog and habit came to mind.

Many of us may not know this but the reason why some people succeed and some fail on their weight loss journey all comes down to how we create a healthy habit in our lifestyle and continue this regularly. This structured habit helps some of us achieve our weight loss goals where as others tend to sign up to gyms and personal trainers and create no structure or healthy habit system and still expect to reach their goals but unfortunately this kind of mind set only leads to failure and not success. I leave you all with saying that if you wish to see healthy change and better weight loss results then take the effort to work with a Personal trainer or on your own to build a structured healthy habit that you can continue to follow regardless of how big or small the change is and Remember that it must be a habit that you can follow on a long term bases and incorporate this habit in your lifestyle so that you may live healthy and happier lives but also reaching your weight loss goals.

Hope I help you understand that healthy habits are like any other habits that if we be consistent then we will reap there rewards and I wish you all the very best in achieving your weight loss goals and building the right habits to live healthy and happier lives.

If you would like to know more about building the right habit structure or just want to ask about health and weight loss advice please don’t heisted to contact me and I will be more than happy to help.

Today I want to talk about how amazing and wonderful our health is to us and why we should value it. I mean most of us truly value our health including myself (at one point) only when we lose it from health conditions like blood pressure, asthma, diabetes and a host of others. I deal with this every day when clients visit me for first time and I ask them to list me in order the five most important thing they value in their lives...yep you would probably be surprised to know that 9 out of 10 times health doesn’t even make the top five list....yep I can see your shocked face right know going REALLY but that’s the reality we live in today that jobs, cars, houses, bonuses seem to trump our health. What many of us don’t not realize is that without our health it kind of becomes difficult for us to be able to even execute never mind obtain these secondary objectives in life. My simple example would be how effective would you be at work if your where sick“would you be able to concentrate or evening preform your work properly“somehow I don’t think you would, never mind thinking about cars and houses instead your minds main focus is most likely going to be about your health and how and when you will you get better. This simply shows us that if only we valued our health in the first place just imagine what a better life we would be living every single day with our family and friends. Hope you enjoyed the read and hopefully from today if health is not in our top five then lets try and make sure it makes the list so we can have healthy and happier lives.
Check me out on my facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/alaldinpt where you will find loads of healthy updates on living a healthier and happier lifestyle and have a fantastic weekend :))
Wishing you all the health and happiness
Aladdin

If you woke up today seconding guessing yourself if you should go hit the gym or continue eat healthy, let me be the one to tell you don’t, I’m saying this from a good place because honestly if you do your most likely be feeling guilty tomorrow for breaking your healthy lifestyle and that stress will be more detrimental to your health then not going to the gym or eat fast food, yes stress is massive health killer because it the route cause to many health condition including belly fat stored around our waist. If that wasn’t enough motivation to keep you from dropping the healthy lifestyle ball today then please remember this that our current actions shape our bodies tomorrow and ask yourself if you don’t go to the gym or exercise today what is the most likely thing you would be doing instead...yep you guessed right most likely you would be sitting at home or some other place eating (not so healthy food). I bet your think now where am I going with all this, well let’s say you didn’t eat unhealthy food what would be the problem then“well let me tell you a little secret, did you know that sitting is the new smoking? What I am trying to say is that we today are spending far too much time being sedately in our daily life that it is making us fatter and unhealthy day by day and there are times in our lives where we cannot control like when we are at the office or having meeting with clients because this is bread and butter but when we have the opportunity to not sit way spend it sitting??? Why waste the chance to keep yourself living a healthier and happier life? Why not be active“.I hope I helped you see that there is more to living then just sitting and watching the TV and always be strong and follow a healthy lifestyle because when your seconding guessing yourself your wasting valuable time from your life that you could be taking action and living happier.
Wishing you all a healthier and happier day every day
Alaldin

Its been way to long since I last wrote a blog but its been a pretty busy start to the new year but what better way to start then to give you all a great reading recommendation for the month of March so you can keep the new year motivation going in the right direction. I'm going to make this blog short and sweet as i will be written another post on the weekend. The book I want to recommend for your spring reading is called your personal paleo code. this book has been written by Chris Kresser and is without a doubt a fantastic read that will for sure give the needed insight in helping you maintain and progress towards your health and wellness goals. I loved how he touch on important topic that many health books out there avoid and kept simple and focused for your reading pleasure. I will say that this book is a really good read, but I will not spoil to much so please check it out in the below and enjoy the start of a wonderful healthy spring season

its that time again another week is over and Its been a fantastic week all round. Yep overall this week was full of great news from Dubai winning to host the EXPO 2020 to me taking my marathon training to the next stage in preparation for the Standard Charted Dubai Marathon but the best news came in the form of hearing how great one of my client is feeling after loosing more then 40Lbs of weight and dropping down from 31% body fat to a healthy 17%.This is a fantastic example of how hard work and dedication towards our health can truly unlock Extraordinary life changing results physically, mentally and spiritually.
This task is not easy but anyone can achieve better health, so long as you have the right mind set for obtaining better health, I wish to tell you that it will not be easy nor will it be quick but if you put in the hard work and dedication it will be soooo worthwhile at the end. When you look at Yourself after achieving your goals you will see a NEW you with better energy levels, a healthier glowing feeling inside & out and a healthier body, this would make all that hard work worth it.
I wish you all the very best on your journey to better health like my hard working clients, always remember never give up and always strive to better your health beacuse its priceless. I hope going into 2014 we all including myself make a step forward towards a better and healthier future. Hard work and dedication makes the impossible possible!
Finally I just wanted to congratulate Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum for successfully winning the bid to host the EXPO 2020 and wish them and all emiraties and wonderful and happy national day :)

This week has been very busy… but after watching a video on YouTube that brought back memories about how major food companies use Cochineal beetles to dye many major food items, so I just had to post this blog to help raise more awareness about this ongoing problem. This issue has caused many health problems to countless amounts of people around the world including my own nephew that is still suffering from the aftereffects of this unnecessary & to be frankly honest disgusting Ingredient (if you can even call it that...) because if not treated early it could have long term effects on our health. I am personally really saddened by this issue because until today nothing has really been done in regards to clamping down and resolving this major issue. These food companies are still getting away by continuing to use this in the food items we eat.

However, we have the power to make the small changes in our lifestyle that will have a positive effect on our health. It is our responsibility to look after our health and to do so we need to take few seconds to read what we buy whenever we go grocery shopping and avoid this and many other health damaging ingredients. The most effective way I found that works best with many of my clients and even my little nephew is just sticking to what Mother Nature and God has provided us with by only Eating Real Food. I hope after reading this you will take away something positive and begin living healthier lifestyles if you haven’t already begun by applying small changes that matter, because what I realized early on in my health and fitness career is that we must respect our health first if we are to ever respect ourselves and live happier and healthier lives.

You may find below the video link of the news report on YouTube I am referring to in this blog and also a helpful app on Android and Iphone that can help you out when grocery shopping decoding the E’s and other things in our food.

In this weeks blog I will be writing about the people that make our job as fitness & wellness professionals worthwhile, yes I'm talking about the men, women & children Superstars (clients) who in trust in us to help them achieve their lifestyle and fitness goals. These wonderful people take on a challenge of a lifetime by making the first step of wanted to change there health & lifestyle. They approach us to help guide & educate them towards achieving there goals and enriching there lives. I as a fitness and wellness professionals could not be more honored and proud to work with such strong minded, motivated, hard working and passionate people who truly inspire me to continue to coach with a passion and love in seeing them succeed by achieving there health and lifestyle dream goals. finally I wanted to say that without these wonderful people my job would not be as rewarding...not by a long shot, these wonderful people really make my day, because when a client tell me that after 6-8 weeks they lost 5-10lbs and feel healthy and happier then they did at the start of there lifestyle journey, the feeling inside me as health and wellness coaches is simply priceless.
I wish to give a big thank you to all the clients out there working towards achieving better health and wellbeing, by making the right changes to live healthier and happier lives they continue to put smiles in all our hearts. These wonderful superstars are the true Hero's in there health & lifestyle journey and I'm so honored and proud to be apart of there wonderful success. Today's blog goes out to all the superstars, yep that’s all of you clients & I wish you all continued success in your health and lifestyle journey and I wish to continue to be apart of your future success.
Wishing you all the health and wealth
Alaldin

Today I will be discussing a pretty hot topic, I don’t know if you saw a few days ago on the news or online, a Dr Aseem Malhotra published an article in The British medical journal that begins questioning the myth that saturated fat is the cause of heart disease.
According to Dr Malhotra food containing saturated fats is being overstated and demonized by the current food guidelines that we are provided. Dr Malhotra argument is that in the last 40 years saturated fat has been declining in our diets yet the risk of obesity and heart disease has sky rocketed and is now at an all time high worldwide. Dr Malhotra continues on by stating that foods that saturated fats was removed from has been replaced by sugar to replicate the taste in food. In Dr Malhotra professional medical opinion, he points out that Sugar (the white devil) is the true culprit behind the obesity "epidemic" and also the increase in other related disease such as type 2 diabetes.
Dr Malhotra article points out the flaws in the influential study from the 1970 which found a link between coronary heart disease and total cholesterol levels. This article points out that saturated fats raises levels of low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) which in turn leads to cardiovascular disease, But as Dr Malhotra writes in his article that correlation is no reason for causation, he points that recent studies has show that large buoyant LDL particles (type A) found in saturated fat has no significant association to cardiovascular disease, instead the small dense LDL particles ( Type B) is associated with carbohydrate, intake that is link & responsible for cardiovascular disease. He even goes on to say that saturated fat is actually found to be protective to the heart rather then harmful. Dr Malhotra used a study from 1950's that showed people that was on diets of 90% fat had lost more weight then those on a carbohydrate and protein diet, this could possibly be correlated to how the body breaks down these foods in different ways (its know as the calorie is not a calorie theory).
It is clear from this article that Dr Malhotra has made some valid points in regards to saturated fat and its affect on our heart. I believe that he has help us to begin exploring this area in a much more in-dept perspective. His article gives us many other factors to explore other then just laying blame on saturated fat as being the bad guy, but in saying that I also think that this is just the first step towards unraveling the truth behind what causes heart disease. I am sure there will be many more medical studies and articles to support his theory in the future that will hopefully help change our the health and wellness industry for the better, as for now lets take this as a positive step forward.
Please let me know what you also think about Dr Malhotra findings in his article which you can read in full at http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f6340 it requires registration but is free for you to read.
I hope you all enjoyed my blog this week exploring a hot topic that has been ignored for many years. I personally hope that more Medical doctors will start to study and research the true cause of heart disease, helping us to make healthier choices in the future and reducing the out of control obesity "epidemic".
You may also follow Dr Aseem Malhotra on twitter.com/@draseemmalhotra, catch all his latest updates as he is a real food advocate :) and believes in the value of health.
Wishing you all the best of health and wealth
Alaldin

Well its been a pretty cool and busy week with some great highlights and of course some great workouts too :), this week has really made me think about the similarities between taking care of our health and taking care of our relationships with our partners and also our families. These two life elements are vitally important for our continued growth and development in life. I have came up with three really similar and important points between the two that will make you think and also appreciates these beautiful elements of life“
1. Nurture- this point is vital for both because with our health we must nurture it by eating real food to meet our daily body intake and provide it with a dose of exercise enough to stimulate healthy human function. The same goes for a relationship because if you don't nurture and understand your partner or family member then your relationship will start to drift apart., this will eventually cause your relationship many problems in the future that could lead to unhealthy resolutions like divorce, cheating and even total disconnection with parents or siblings.
2. Develop- Development is a real challenge in both instances of health and relationship because it requires us to find ways to evolve ourselves to continue to grow. Both Health & relationships requires two pieces to develop and solve our life puzzle of evolving ourselves. Firstly to develop our health we must understand our bodies level of abilities, also when and how to progress our body to grow the way we want it to grow so that we reap the results we require. This also goes for our relationship because we need to understand the other persons needs so that we know how to fulfill them and help our relationship develop and grow.
3. Love- This is the most important element of the three because without love nothing can be accomplished in both health and relationship. Love is the centre of life and we need to always remember its importance's in our lives. Firstly we most love our health & our bodies, and take care of it to the best of our ability. When we take care of our body it always rewards us with great results and a feel good sense to live life to the max, and nothing is better then waking up in the morning and feel you can achieve anything life. Love in a Relationship gives us a reward no money can buy and that reward comes in the form of Love, affection and warmth, these emotional triggers helps us reduce stress and active oxytocin (the love hormone), this hormone has been shown to play an important role in bonding between couples and helps build trust in a relationship to help it stand the test of time.
So after reading this I hope we can all do something today to help improve our health and our relationship in these three very important elements and live healthier and happier lives.
Wishing you all the health and wealth
AB

Alaldin Benissa is an expert in the fields of lifestyle, fitness and nutrition, over 9 years alaldin has been a motivator and a role model to countless clients worldwide. By treating his clients body as one unit and analyzing the true cause of his clients health and lifestyle barriers Alaldin is able to successfully coach his clients in attaining optimal health and amazing lifestyle results. Alaldin also works closely with some of the best minds In natural medicine to help his clients with some of the more complex health challenges so that clients receive the best possible results. Before he became a wellness coach and personal trainer Alaldin had struggled with his own health and lifestyle demons of been over weight and asthmatic among many other health challenges, but he was willing, determined and focused on achieving better health through pure dedication and after months of hard work he was able to achieved his goal of loosing over 80 pounds and regaining a healthier lifestyle. Until this day Alaldin continues to live by his code of what he coaches his client's, this has changed his and many client's lives forever. Today Alaldin continues to use his experience and education to coach client's worldwide to reach their ultimate lifestyle goals and live healthier lives.